The solution I use to your question Dave is DynDns<br><br><a href="http://www.dyndns.com">http://www.dyndns.com</a><br><br>You can sign up for a free DynDns account here. What this does - and excuse me not being able to explain it at a high tech level, is to provide a pointer to your host machine where you have a Dynamic IP address. Most home broadband has a dynamic IP that changes from time to time and if you are using DHCP on your home network, your IP address changes sometime sif you switch machines on in a different order.
<br><br>With DynDns, you don't have to remember your broadband IP or machine IP but you will get a usable name for access anywhere if you so choose - providing you set up port forwarding on the router correctly to take in a range of IPs where you allow an outside connection.
<br><br>You can then set up an update client on your host machine if the IP changes:<br><a href="http://www.dyndns.com/services/dns/dyndns/">http://www.dyndns.com/services/dns/dyndns/</a><br><br>See update clients on the link above.
<br><br>In Ubuntu, you can specify SSH to run on boot - I'd need to be at my Linux box to tell you where..<br><br>I've probably not explained this very well but it sounds like a similar set up to my server.<br><br>
<br>Toby<br><br><br>PS Easy ones for y'all. Now Steve has answered my question on making<br>> sure linux boots on start up (its not dual boot but always seemed to<br>> stop at the bootloader and require me to tap return), how do I check
<br>> that sshd is set to run on boot and how about setting up my 'have-a-<br>> go box' to use a static IP rather than one set by my DHCP router<br>> (Netgear DG834G v2).<br>><br>> I have no monitor connected to the box usually (it's under the
<br>> stairs) and use ssh to get in. When I've restarted in the past I've<br>> lost the ability to ssh in for whatever reason. I've thought it's<br>> probably the router giving it a different IP or sshd not running on
<br>> boot, so I want to cover all the bases before I give it another go.<br>> Plus then I can power it down on occasions and just tell the wife to<br>> switch it on if I need to get at it whilst at work or whatever.
<br>><br>> It's a pain in the ar*e to wire up a monitor and physically log in to<br>> check/start everything...<br><br>---------- Forwarded message ----------<br><span class="gmail_quote">From: <b class="gmail_sendername">
<a href="mailto:watford-request@mailman.lug.org.uk">watford-request@mailman.lug.org.uk</a></b> <<a href="mailto:watford-request@mailman.lug.org.uk">watford-request@mailman.lug.org.uk</a>><br>Date: 05-Jul-2007 12:15<br>
Subject: Watford Digest, Vol 57, Issue 4<br>To: <a href="mailto:watford@mailman.lug.org.uk">watford@mailman.lug.org.uk</a><br><br></span>Send Watford mailing list submissions to<br> <a href="mailto:watford@mailman.lug.org.uk">
watford@mailman.lug.org.uk</a><br><br>To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit<br> <a href="https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/watford">https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/watford</a>
<br>or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to<br> <a href="mailto:watford-request@mailman.lug.org.uk">watford-request@mailman.lug.org.uk</a><br><br>You can reach the person managing the list at
<br> <a href="mailto:watford-owner@mailman.lug.org.uk">watford-owner@mailman.lug.org.uk</a><br><br>When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific<br>than "Re: Contents of Watford digest..."
<br><br><br>Today's Topics:<br><br> 1. Dag's archive (Alain Williams)<br> 2. Samba / CUPS (Steven Acreman)<br> 3. Re: Dag's archive (Cliff Deamer)<br> 4. Re: Samba / CUPS (Cliff Deamer)<br> 5. Nice to meet you all... (David Pead)
<br> 6. Re: Nice to meet you all... (Cliff Deamer)<br><br><br>----------------------------------------------------------------------<br><br>Message: 1<br>Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2007 14:42:15 +0100<br>From: Alain Williams <
<a href="mailto:addw@phcomp.co.uk">addw@phcomp.co.uk</a>><br>Subject: [Watford] Dag's archive<br>To: <a href="mailto:watford@mailman.lug.org.uk">watford@mailman.lug.org.uk</a><br>Message-ID: <<a href="mailto:20070704134215.GB14386@mint.phcomp.co.uk">
20070704134215.GB14386@mint.phcomp.co.uk</a>><br>Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii<br><br>I remember someone wanting to know about this, it is an archive of<br>RPMs that you can easily install using yum.<br><br>
This works well with recent CentOS/RedHat.<br><br>Create the following:<br> /etc/yum.repos.d/Dag.repo<br>****************<br># Dag.repo<br>#<br># Dag Wieers repository<br># Also at: <a href="http://dag.freshrpms.net/redhat/el4/en/x86_64/dag/RPMS/">
http://dag.freshrpms.net/redhat/el4/en/x86_64/dag/RPMS/</a><br>#<br>#<br><br>[dag]<br>name=Dag RPM Repository for Red Hat Enterprise Linux<br>baseurl=<a href="http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el$releasever/en/$basearch/dag">http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el$releasever/en/$basearch/dag
</a><br>gpgcheck=1<br>enabled=1<br>****************<br><br>You will also need to import his key:<br><br> curl -O <a href="http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/packages/RPM-GPG-KEY.dag.txt">http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/packages/RPM-GPG-KEY.dag.txt
</a><br> rpm --import RPM-GPG-KEY.dag.txt<br><br>--<br>Alain Williams<br>Linux Consultant - Mail systems, Web sites, Networking, Programmer, IT Lecturer.<br>+44 (0) 787 668 0256 <a href="http://www.phcomp.co.uk/">
http://www.phcomp.co.uk/</a><br>Parliament Hill Computers Ltd. Registration Information: <a href="http://www.phcomp.co.uk/contact.php">http://www.phcomp.co.uk/contact.php</a><br>#include <std_disclaimer.h><br><br><br>
<br>------------------------------<br><br>Message: 2<br>Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2007 15:31:53 +0100<br>From: "Steven Acreman" <<a href="mailto:sacreman@gmail.com">sacreman@gmail.com</a>><br>Subject: [Watford] Samba / CUPS
<br>To: <a href="mailto:watford@mailman.lug.org.uk">watford@mailman.lug.org.uk</a><br>Message-ID:<br> <<a href="mailto:651947030707040731p76b059c2sb50e798957ae60c2@mail.gmail.com">651947030707040731p76b059c2sb50e798957ae60c2@mail.gmail.com
</a>><br>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"<br><br>As requested last night here is a quick guide :<br><br><a href="http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/quick-samba-howto.xml">http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/quick-samba-howto.xml
</a><br><br>The samba / cups config files apply to any distro<br>-------------- next part --------------<br>An HTML attachment was scrubbed...<br>URL: <a href="http://mailman.lug.org.uk/pipermail/watford/attachments/20070704/d3326f91/attachment-0001.html">
http://mailman.lug.org.uk/pipermail/watford/attachments/20070704/d3326f91/attachment-0001.html</a><br><br>------------------------------<br><br>Message: 3<br>Date: Wed, 04 Jul 2007 16:32:57 +0100<br>From: Cliff Deamer <
<a href="mailto:cliff.g3ndc@btinternet.com">cliff.g3ndc@btinternet.com</a>><br>Subject: Re: [Watford] Dag's archive<br>To: <a href="mailto:watford@mailman.lug.org.uk">watford@mailman.lug.org.uk</a><br>Message-ID: <
1183563177.6298.3.camel@localhost><br>Content-Type: text/plain<br><br>Thanks Alain,<br>I asked the question and will file your answer for future use/reference.<br>Cheers Cliff<br><br>On Wed, 2007-07-04 at 14:42 +0100, Alain Williams wrote:
<br>> I remember someone wanting to know about this, it is an archive of<br>> RPMs that you can easily install using yum.<br>><br>> This works well with recent CentOS/RedHat.<br>><br>> Create the following:
<br>> /etc/yum.repos.d/Dag.repo<br>> ****************<br>> # Dag.repo<br>> #<br>> # Dag Wieers repository<br>> # Also at: <a href="http://dag.freshrpms.net/redhat/el4/en/x86_64/dag/RPMS/">http://dag.freshrpms.net/redhat/el4/en/x86_64/dag/RPMS/
</a><br>> #<br>> #<br>><br>> [dag]<br>> name=Dag RPM Repository for Red Hat Enterprise Linux<br>> baseurl=<a href="http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el$releasever/en/$basearch/dag">http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el$releasever/en/$basearch/dag
</a><br>> gpgcheck=1<br>> enabled=1<br>> ****************<br>><br>> You will also need to import his key:<br>><br>> curl -O <a href="http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/packages/RPM-GPG-KEY.dag.txt">http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/packages/RPM-GPG-KEY.dag.txt
</a><br>> rpm --import RPM-GPG-KEY.dag.txt<br>><br><br><br><br><br>------------------------------<br><br>Message: 4<br>Date: Wed, 04 Jul 2007 16:35:02 +0100<br>From: Cliff Deamer <<a href="mailto:cliff.g3ndc@btinternet.com">
cliff.g3ndc@btinternet.com</a>><br>Subject: Re: [Watford] Samba / CUPS<br>To: <a href="mailto:watford@mailman.lug.org.uk">watford@mailman.lug.org.uk</a><br>Message-ID: <1183563302.6298.5.camel@localhost><br>Content-Type: text/plain
<br><br>Thanks Steven and thanks for the impressive demo.<br>Cliff<br><br>On Wed, 2007-07-04 at 15:31 +0100, Steven Acreman wrote:<br>> As requested last night here is a quick guide :<br>><br>> <a href="http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/quick-samba-howto.xml">
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/quick-samba-howto.xml</a><br>><br>> The samba / cups config files apply to any distro<br>> _______________________________________________<br>> Watford mailing list<br>> <a href="mailto:Watford@mailman.lug.org.uk">
Watford@mailman.lug.org.uk</a><br>> <a href="https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/watford">https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/watford</a><br><br><br><br><br>------------------------------<br><br>Message: 5
<br>Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2007 22:21:03 +0100<br>From: David Pead <<a href="mailto:davesignup@pead.myzen.co.uk">davesignup@pead.myzen.co.uk</a>><br>Subject: [Watford] Nice to meet you all...<br>To: WLUG <<a href="mailto:watford@mailman.lug.org.uk">
watford@mailman.lug.org.uk</a>><br>Message-ID: <<a href="mailto:C6676753-1C94-4944-9119-AB9C3FF27776@pead.myzen.co.uk">C6676753-1C94-4944-9119-AB9C3FF27776@pead.myzen.co.uk</a>><br>Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed
<br><br>Hey chaps,<br><br>Thanks for the warm welcome yesterday eve. It was great to hear what<br>some of you are into and get a taste of what to expect. It seems you<br>guys are obviously very switched on with many aspects of Linux and I
<br>look forward to hopefully gleaning at least some skills from what you<br>have to share.<br><br>Steve, great demo, well presented, though I must admit most of the<br>aspects of what you showed were new to me and completely over my
<br>head! However, I did find it fascinating and remember being rather<br>stunned at some of the dialogue between you and others within the<br>group regarding aspects of the install/build. Matt did endeavour to<br>reassure me that the demo was probably one of the most techie thus far.
<br><br>There are clearly aspects of linux that you guys take for granted<br>which I haven't yet sussed out. I guess it's like driving a car. You<br>guys are racing around, not even thinking about how to change gears,
<br>whilst I'm still trying to to pull away in first without stalling the<br>motor! However, don't dumb things down too much on my behalf, I'm<br>sure over time I'll get at least into second gear and perhaps even
<br>third or fourth!!<br><br>Cliff, as I mentioned, the link to the mailing list seems to take you<br>to a page on the wiki rather than the mailing list URL which I have<br>down as:<br><br><a href="http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/watford">
http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/watford</a><br><br>rather than<br><br><a href="http://www.watford.lug.org.uk/wiki/index.php/Mailing_List">http://www.watford.lug.org.uk/wiki/index.php/Mailing_List</a><br><br>Just a suggestion because if folks are wanting to find out a bit more
<br>about wlug or ask some questions its not as simple as perhaps it<br>might be?<br><br>I look forward to next months meeting all things being well.... Neel<br>(sp?), I owe you a pint!<br><br>Best regards,<br>Dave<br><br>
PS Easy ones for y'all. Now Steve has answered my question on making<br>sure linux boots on start up (its not dual boot but always seemed to<br>stop at the bootloader and require me to tap return), how do I check<br>that sshd is set to run on boot and how about setting up my 'have-a-
<br>go box' to use a static IP rather than one set by my DHCP router<br>(Netgear DG834G v2).<br><br>I have no monitor connected to the box usually (it's under the<br>stairs) and use ssh to get in. When I've restarted in the past I've
<br>lost the ability to ssh in for whatever reason. I've thought it's<br>probably the router giving it a different IP or sshd not running on<br>boot, so I want to cover all the bases before I give it another go.<br>
Plus then I can power it down on occasions and just tell the wife to<br>switch it on if I need to get at it whilst at work or whatever.<br><br>It's a pain in the ar*e to wire up a monitor and physically log in to<br>check/start everything...
<br><br>PPS Ubuntu 6.10 server edition<br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br>------------------------------<br><br>Message: 6<br>Date: Thu, 05 Jul 2007 11:16:16 +0100<br>From: Cliff Deamer <<a href="mailto:cliff.g3ndc@btinternet.com">
cliff.g3ndc@btinternet.com</a>><br>Subject: Re: [Watford] Nice to meet you all...<br>To: <a href="mailto:watford@mailman.lug.org.uk">watford@mailman.lug.org.uk</a><br>Message-ID: <1183630576.12003.0.camel@localhost>
<br>Content-Type: text/plain<br><br>Hi David,<br>Where are you starting from?<br>Cliff<br><br>On Wed, 2007-07-04 at 22:21 +0100, David Pead wrote:<br>> Hey chaps,<br>><br>> Thanks for the warm welcome yesterday eve. It was great to hear what
<br>> some of you are into and get a taste of what to expect. It seems you<br>> guys are obviously very switched on with many aspects of Linux and I<br>> look forward to hopefully gleaning at least some skills from what you
<br>> have to share.<br>><br>> Steve, great demo, well presented, though I must admit most of the<br>> aspects of what you showed were new to me and completely over my<br>> head! However, I did find it fascinating and remember being rather
<br>> stunned at some of the dialogue between you and others within the<br>> group regarding aspects of the install/build. Matt did endeavour to<br>> reassure me that the demo was probably one of the most techie thus far.
<br>><br>> There are clearly aspects of linux that you guys take for granted<br>> which I haven't yet sussed out. I guess it's like driving a car. You<br>> guys are racing around, not even thinking about how to change gears,
<br>> whilst I'm still trying to to pull away in first without stalling the<br>> motor! However, don't dumb things down too much on my behalf, I'm<br>> sure over time I'll get at least into second gear and perhaps even
<br>> third or fourth!!<br>><br>> Cliff, as I mentioned, the link to the mailing list seems to take you<br>> to a page on the wiki rather than the mailing list URL which I have<br>> down as:<br>><br>>
<a href="http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/watford">http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/watford</a><br>><br>> rather than<br>><br>> <a href="http://www.watford.lug.org.uk/wiki/index.php/Mailing_List">
http://www.watford.lug.org.uk/wiki/index.php/Mailing_List</a><br>><br>> Just a suggestion because if folks are wanting to find out a bit more<br>> about wlug or ask some questions its not as simple as perhaps it<br>
> might be?<br>><br>> I look forward to next months meeting all things being well.... Neel<br>> (sp?), I owe you a pint!<br>><br>> Best regards,<br>> Dave<br>><br>> PS Easy ones for y'all. Now Steve has answered my question on making
<br>> sure linux boots on start up (its not dual boot but always seemed to<br>> stop at the bootloader and require me to tap return), how do I check<br>> that sshd is set to run on boot and how about setting up my 'have-a-
<br>> go box' to use a static IP rather than one set by my DHCP router<br>> (Netgear DG834G v2).<br>><br>> I have no monitor connected to the box usually (it's under the<br>> stairs) and use ssh to get in. When I've restarted in the past I've
<br>> lost the ability to ssh in for whatever reason. I've thought it's<br>> probably the router giving it a different IP or sshd not running on<br>> boot, so I want to cover all the bases before I give it another go.
<br>> Plus then I can power it down on occasions and just tell the wife to<br>> switch it on if I need to get at it whilst at work or whatever.<br>><br>> It's a pain in the ar*e to wire up a monitor and physically log in to
<br>> check/start everything...<br>><br>> PPS Ubuntu 6.10 server edition<br>><br>><br>><br>><br>><br>> _______________________________________________<br>> Watford mailing list<br>> <a href="mailto:Watford@mailman.lug.org.uk">
Watford@mailman.lug.org.uk</a><br>> <a href="https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/watford">https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/watford</a><br><br><br><br><br>------------------------------<br><br>_______________________________________________
<br>Watford mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Watford@mailman.lug.org.uk">Watford@mailman.lug.org.uk</a><br><a href="https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/watford">https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/watford</a>
<br><br><br>End of Watford Digest, Vol 57, Issue 4<br>**************************************<br>